Tonstartssbandht Share New Video for "New Black Fever", 'Hymn' 'An When' & 'Dick Nights' Reissues out July 15th!
Tonstartssbandht's are back today w/ a new video for "Hymn" stand out track "New Black Fever" alongside tour dates that sees the band back on the road all Summer with plenty of copies of the reissues in tow. 'An When,' 'Hymn' & 'Dick Nights' are out physically in one month, July 15th!
The band says of the new visual: "We recorded the songs on Hymn in Montreal over the passing of a dreamlike summer and an endless winter. "New Black Fever" started when Andy made a truncated, hypnotic loop from our song "Black Country". Edwin was obsessed with "Fever" by Horace Andy so he began singing it over the loop. He then -- in standard Tonstartssbandht fashion -- added his own original melodies throughout the song with lyrical odes to our home state of Florida, a place we repped hard while living up in Montreal. Drummer/Crooner Edwin also flexed his chops and laid down some renaissance man guitar licks before handing the axe over to the resident axeman himself, Andy Boay, to get holy with the solo near the end. The performance footage in this video is from live shows in Tokyo and Montreal in 2011, after Hymn came out and we were trying to recreate our home-studio songs live. During that year in Montreal, Andy got into playing with video feedback and capturing it. The feedback mixing seen in this video was captured one afternoon in late 2020 after digging out the video gear and rekindling the fire of his old hobby. Fever in the morning, in the evening, in the night time."
A snapshot from the earliest days of the Florida brother's vast catalog, these records provides a distinct starting point from which the band has journeyed. Through years of constant touring, the duo’s songs have both taken shape and changed shape, yet maintained their long, languid tendencies, full of open musical questions and temporary answers. Far from what FADER calls “psychedelia’s most intriguing upstarts,” the band’s “time-warped explosion of folksy jams designed to transport you out of this world” (Pitchfork) have become their own distinct object. Each reissue provides a photograph that perfectly encapsulates Tonstartssbandht at a single moment in their evolution. Now critically-acclaimed statesmen who staked out previously unseen territory in experimental indie music of the early oughts, the reissued recordings feel both transcendent and intimate, a portal into lineage of music that feels laden with possibility and exploratory wonder.
